Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Effective Date: August 2026·Version 2.0

Standard of Conduct

This Acceptable Use Policy outlines the rules and standards required of all users of SiteMind. By creating a workspace, generating embeddings, or embedding our widgets, you agree to adhere strictly to these guidelines.

1. Prohibited Content

Illegal Content: Any content that violates applicable local, national, or international laws, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), human trafficking, or terrorism recruitment.
Malicious Software: Distributing viruses, trojans, worms, ransomware, keyloggers, or other harmful computer code.
Infringing Material: Indexing, uploading, or distributing text, documents, or media that infringe copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights of third parties.
Harassment & Defamation: Using the assistant or widget to generate defamatory, threatening, abusive, racially offensive, or hateful communications.
Phishing & Deceptive Impersonation: Forging identities, deploying deceitful lead-capture forms, or pretending to be an unaffiliated financial, governmental, or law enforcement institution.

2. Regulated Data Prohibitions (HIPAA, PCI & Financial Data)

Protected Health Information (PHI): SiteMind is designed for public website assistance and general logistical support. SiteMind is NOT a HIPAA-compliant repository and does not execute Business Associate Agreements (BAAs). You MUST NOT upload, crawl, or solicit Protected Health Information (PHI), medical records, or diagnostic data through the Service.
Payment Card Data (PCI-DSS): You MUST NOT use SiteMind chat forms or document uploads to collect or store primary account numbers (PANs), card security codes (CVV/CVC), or bank account PINs.
Classified & National Security Data: Ingesting government-classified information, defense articles, or export-controlled technological data is strictly forbidden.

3. Prohibited Technical Activities & Abuse

Adversarial Prompt Injection & Jailbreaks: Attempting to bypass system safety guardrails, force model instruction leakage, or manipulate the assistant to execute unauthorized system commands.
Unauthorized Crawling & Web Scraping: Initiating crawl jobs against domains you do not own or for which you lack explicit written authorization to scrape.
Denial of Service & Rate-Limit Bypasses: Flooding API endpoints, deploying automated bot attacks, rotating forged headers to evade rate limiters, or interfering with system availability for other customers.
Reverse Engineering: Decompiling, reverse-engineering, or extracting proprietary source code, vector ranking heuristics, or prompt templates from the SiteMind platform.
Security Probing: Performing uncoordinated vulnerability scans, penetration testing, or stress tests against SiteMind production infrastructure without prior written authorization from [email protected].

4. Crawler Etiquette & Fair Use

Authorized Scope: Crawlers must only be targeted at public website URLs and approved subdirectories.
Traffic Limits: SiteMind enforces concurrency controls and domain-level crawl ceilings to ensure destination web servers are not overwhelmed.
Resource Respect: If a target website owner requests the cessation of crawling, Customer must immediately disconnect the domain.

5. Enforcement, Investigation & Reporting

Monitoring & Investigation: SiteMind reserves the right to investigate any suspected violation of this Policy, inspect anomalous traffic patterns, and cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
Remediation Actions: In the event of a violation, SiteMind may issue warnings, remove offending content, disable crawler jobs, or immediately suspend or terminate workspace access without liability or refund.
Abuse Reporting: To report suspected abuse, spam, phishing, or safety violations involving a SiteMind widget, contact us immediately at [email protected] or [email protected].